2017/08/06 5:07 "Cyril Brulebois" <k...@debian.org>: > > Hi, > > While preparing some slides for my “News from the Debian Installer” talk > at DebConf17, it occured to me that we might want to reconsider the > default here: > > Guided - use a whole disk > Guided - use a whole disk with LVM > Guided - use a whole disk with encrypted LVM > Manual > > Current default is the first entry, and I think we should switch to > second one, with LVM. > > If the user doesn't need to touch anything, that doesn't change much; if > the user wants to change partitioning afterwards, LVM's flexibility is > available. > > Is anyone aware of any drawbacks of switching to LVM by default? > > > KiBi.
This would be a source of a lot of confusion and flame wars and other back-and-forth on debian-user. Making LVM a recommended, guided option with a lot of hand-holding, sure, especially if the default includes making a MSWindows readable partition for sharing. But that is not whole disk. Forcing people to do what we think is good for them never works out well. -- Joel Rees http://reiisi.blogspot.com